Posted on September 8th, 2009 by egiles
If you’re running into hard drive issues, sporadic error messages, or other problems, it’s time to backup and test your drive.
If you’re on a journaling file system ext4 or other, these errors might sometimes get corrected, but you need to replace your drive.
apt-get install smartmontools
smartctl -a /dev/sda1 (or your problematic drive)
Any errors or queued reads/writes [...]
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Posted on September 8th, 2009 by egiles
I was randomly getting hard drive error messages. UNC means UNCorrectable ERRor, …. not good. These messages were like:
Feb 17 10:40:34 server04 kernel: ata1.00: cmd 60/f8:08:85:fe:dd/00:00:18:00:00/40 tag 1 ncq 126976 in
Feb 17 10:40:34 server04 kernel: res 40/00:10:7d:00:de/00:00:18:00:00/40 Emask 0×1 (device error)
Feb 17 10:40:34 server04 kernel: ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
Feb 17 10:40:34 server04 kernel: ata1.00: cmd [...]
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Posted on September 8th, 2009 by egiles
After a fresh install of Ubuntu 9.04, you might have a network interface virbr0 if you’ve selected to install a virtual machine emulator. During the CD install, selecting vm, it will install kvm and xen. It will create a network interface virbr0 or virbr1 to perform host networking.
Later, if you decide to install VMWare or decide [...]
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